Gripping means for rifles and shotguns



W. F JOHNS May 18 1926.

GRIPPING MEANS FOR RIFLES AND SH'OTGUNS Filed June 2. 1923 Patented May 18, 1926.

tlNl'lEfi STATES WILLIAM FRANCIS JOHNS,

GRIPPING MEANS FOR Application filed June 2, 1923.

My invention has been devised with the object of providing a grip attachment to rifles and shot guns by the employment of which the firearm may be held more securely in position against the shooters shoulder, and thereby held more effectively from any lateral movement or wobbling, when being aimed and fired. With these firearms as at present designed and used, it is customary to support the gun by an extended arm of the user resting beneath the gun stock and drawing the gun back against the shoulder, and as the grip of the extended hand upon the stock is inclined to slide back when drawing the butt in against the shoulder and the extended arm has to take the weight of the gun and is itself unsupported, there is a tendency for the gun end to waver and thereby to destroy the aim.

The present invention provides an attachment to the gun by the employment of which a strong effective grip is obtained by the extended hand so that in addition to the guns weight being fully supported, the guns butt may be drawn back hard against the shoulder and held firmly there during aiming and firing.

The attachment forming the invention consists in a short handle that is fastened to extend vertically from beneath the barrel at a point immediately forward of the stock. In the case of a double barrelled gun this handle will depend from a point in between the two barrels. The handle is attached to the barrel, or barrels, by any approved means such as to provide for it extending vertically and to hold it against any rearward movement on the barrel. It may be left free to swing laterally, or may be locked rigidly against such movement.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of a shot gun showing the attachment thereon.

Figure 2 is an enlarged detail side elevation of the attachment and the portion of the gun to which it is fastened.

Figure 3 is a cross section thereof on the line 33 of Figure 2.

OF RAGLAN, NEW ZEALAND.

RIFLES AND SHOTGUNS.

Serial No. 643,107.

Figure 4 is an end elevation thereof as showing the attachment upon a double barrelled gun.

Figure 5 is a cross sectional elevation of the attachment.

The attachment is formed by a handle piece A, of wood or any other approved material, made of such length and body, and so shaped in its cross section, that it may be comfortably grasped by the hand. The handle piece is fastened in a metal 6 frame B so shaped as to form an eye B above the handle top. Instead of being made in this way, the handle may be made in one piece, of any approved material, such as light metal.

The handle thus made, is mounted on a pin C that is fitted to extend through two bearings DD formed beneath the barrel E in the case of a rifle or a single barrelled gun, or within the space beneath the two barrels E, in the case of a double barrelled gun, as shown in Figure 4. These bearings are spaced apart such that the eye B of the handle may enter between them and the pin C is then passed through both bearings and the eye, to hold the handle in position so that it extends vertically downward. The handle may be left to swing freely on the pin or the pin may be locked from rotation and the handle locked on the pin by any approved method.

Provision for the adjustment of the handle in its distance along the gun, may be obtained by positioning the bearingsD a distance apart such that the eye B may be moved to and fro on its pin C and then by inserting washers of different widths between the eye and bearings on the respective sides.

It will be ,apparent that the handle thus provided will provide a far more effective hand grip than is afforded by the gun stock, and will allow for a positive rearward pull being placed on the gun while also forming a means for sustaining its extended weight.

In the use of the handle also, aid may be obtained in the correct pointing of the gun, as when the hand extends to grip the handle,

the forefinger may be extended and pointed directly at the target and the barrel aligned in relation to the finger.

I claim g In an attachment for rifles, shot guns or the like, the combination of a handle having an eye at its top; spaced bearings adapted to be secured to the underside ofthe barrel in the longitudinal direction thereof, so as to receive freely between them the eye on the said handle, and a pivot pin adapted to be passed through the said bearings and the said eye.

In testimony whereof, I afiix my signa-.

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WILLIAM FRANCIS JOHNS. 

